Nexon is a planet in Isaac Asimov's Robot series.
About Nexon[]
Nexon is one of the fifty Spacer Worlds. Located approximately two parsecs from Solaria, Nexon played a pivotal role in the colonization and development of its neighboring planet. By the time of its initial settlement, Solaria was an attractive prospect for the wealthy elite of Nexon, who were experiencing a decline in their standard of living due to their planet's rising population, which had reached two million. Strict limits had to be placed on robot ownership per family. Seeking to maintain their luxurious lifestyles, affluent Nexonians established vast summer estates on Solaria, drawn by its temperate climate, fertility, and lack of dangerous indigenous fauna. This initial wave of colonization, where owners could easily travel back to Nexon, allowed for virtually unlimited land and robot ownership on the virgin world.[1]
The Nexonian settlers equipped their Solarian robots with radio contact to manage their enormous estates efficiently, an innovation that sparked the development of Solaria's famed and advanced robotics industry. As more Nexonians built homes and began residing on Solaria year-round, the planet's infrastructure grew to include factories and mines. This economic development, coupled with a desire to avoid Nexon's fate of overpopulation, led Solaria to successfully declare independence. Nexon's influence waned as Solaria evolved into a fiercely isolationist society, but its initial settlement by Nexon's upper class established the foundational culture of extreme individualism and robot dependency that would come to define the Solarian way of life.
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